TODAY: In 1985, Calvin & Hobbes is first published.
- Nathaniel Popkin on the trickle-down effect of half-truths, post-truths, and lies.
- After Bolaño, the deluge: on the steady of surge Latin-American writing appearing in English
- Rules for radicals: in search of San Francisco’s revolutionary bookstores
- Finding America at the gun range: James Boice pulls the trigger for research.
- “Be kind to everybody, make art, and fight the power.” The National Book Award acceptance speeches from Colson Whitehead, Ibram X. Kendi, and Rep. John Lewis. | Vulture
- In which Karl Ove Knausgaard smokes a cigarette and discusses writing his first book. | The Paris Review
- Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, one of the many books that allegedly predicted Trump’s rise to power, has sold out on major online book retailers. | MONEY
- ‘Come, sonny boy!’ The nominees for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award have been announced. | The Cut
- From National Parks to white nationalism, a post-election reading list. | FSG Works in Progress
- Bob Dylan has informed the Swedish Academy (in, at least, a personal letter) that he will not be attending their award ceremony. | The New York Times
- Just call them comics: Against the now-irrelevant term “graphic novel.” | NPR
